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Tragedy Poems - Poems about Tragedy

Tragedy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tragedy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tragedy.
In the garden of eternity, where the spirit blooms like a vine of mystery
...In the garden of eternity, where the spirit blooms like a vine of mystery, We tread, unknowingly, on steps of time hidden beneath olive branches. As the lifeblood of our finished thoughts dwindles,......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Art of Silence
... There is an art to s i l e n c e, a beauty in its presence, when a natural choice. From the fragility of b u t t e r f l i e s, to the majesty of sun kissed petals, an affinity with sparklin......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Why create me
...She screams at the heavens, her voice a plea, In anguish and despair, on bended knee. "Why create me," she wails, "for endless pain, For 45 years, suffering's been my bane!" "You know all, th......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, anger, betrayal, christian, fate,
Form: Rhyme
The Official Comedy
...Maybe I walk in your shoes, Perhaps you sleep like my loops, Probably, this is an unimaginable satire, Inside your head, I can never born again and be a disaster. Perhaps I am only your necessi......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, anxiety, depression, feelings, irony,
Form: Free verse
Rebirth
...Rebirth: Tragedy has been your favorite genre— A fount of acts and scenes of wailing tears and excruciating scars punctured alive by so-called healers. That oozing wound paints the genr......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, 7th grade, poems,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Another Better World
... "Another Better World" These little sins you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies, like throwin......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Waking
... “Upon Waking” Slumber has its upsides while the outside runs around like a split fowlyard, cacophonous pecking at each other and at the ground… Elsewhere, like d......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative
Two Doves
...Two Doves Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away, lived two childhood sweethearts named Aiden and Adeline. Despite growing apart due to societal expectations and familial obligations, they couldn't......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, angel, beach, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
signed to the message
... do your bit for king and country. are you a coward? or are you brave? so now is the time to sacrifice you don`t want to let your mates down it`s a kinship of the soul you know that’s the Au......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, memorial, war,
Form: Free verse
In the vast ocean of beings and tempestuous thoughts
...In the vast ocean of beings and tempestuous thoughts, You are the vessel that sails with heart at the prow, brimming with unsaid treasures. Not all can taste your depths, not all can penetrate the ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aftermath of Flood
... Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain, Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign, Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day, As tree......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Most Beautiful Lady That Ever Was
... People anticipated, and waited for the day they could gaze upon my beauty, and that they did. The men adored me, the women admired me, and the children were in awe of me. Everyone loved me! I was......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, farewell, remember, voyage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
...Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed Hanging at t......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Last Drop Of Their Blood
... In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free, Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set. Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun, Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter deb......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, absence, addiction, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simply Senryu: Writers understand
...Art's a paradox It is a lie that makes us Realize the truth Tragedy plus time Some pundits are wont to say Equals comedy Writers understand Language is a living thing Constantly in flux ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, writing,
Form: Senryu

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